| Marcus Aurelius Root Margaret Douglass 1854 (?) Engraving Library Company of Philadelphia LL/52605 Daguerreotyped by Root.-- engraved by Sartain.
In The personal narrative of Mrs. Margaret Douglass, a southern woman, who was imprisoned for one month in the common jail of Norfolk, under the laws of Virginia, for the crime of teaching free colored children to read Boston : John P. Jewitt & Co.; Cleveland, O., Jewett and Worthington, 1854), frontispiece.
Douglass established a small school for free black children, teaching them to read and write in her home. For this offense, she spent a month imprisoned in jail in Norfolk, Virginia.
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